Old Mags
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CARTOONIST
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Illustrations from:- The Bystanders Fragments No.5
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Captain Bruce Bairnsfather
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Born 9 July 1888, Murree, British India (now Pakistan)... Failed entrance exams to Sandhurst / Woolwich Academies... He resigned in 1907 to become an artist,.. Studying at the John Hassall School of Art... Unsuccessful at first, so he worked as an electrical engineer.
In 1914 he joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.... served with a machine gun unit in France until 1915,... was hospitalised with shell shock... Posted to the 34th Division headquarters on Salisbury Plain, where he developed his humorous series for the Bystander. |
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